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Alberta to slash oil royalties in hopes oilsands companies will stick around and promise enough new jobs to get the UCP re-elected

The Alberta government’s new “oilsands growth program” announced yesterday turned out to be pretty much as anticipated: We’ll slash the province’s already low royalty rates in hope oilsands companies will promise to create enough new jobs to give voters a reason to re-elect the United Conservative Party. We won’t quite be giving the stuff away, […]

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